Chemist.
Correspondence, diaries, experimental notebooks, writings, printed matter, and
miscellaneous material containing data that led to scientific developments such
as the gas-filled incandescent lamp, the high vacuum power tube, atomic
hydrogen welding, and screening smoke generators for the armed forces. Includes
material on cloud seeding experiments and smoked bathythermograph records
obtained at Lake George, N.Y. Also includes material relating to Langmuir’s
student years.